ROSTOV-ON-DON. April 17 (Interfax) - A museum displaying exhibits that relate to military operations carried out by the United States and NATO will open on the premises of National Scientific Library in Vladikavkaz, the capital of Russia's Republic of North Ossetia, on Thursday.
"The items exhibited there are meant to remind visitors of how the U.S. brings freedom in its own understanding to other countries. In effect, it is the history of state-sponsored terrorism, when NATO soldiers systematically destroyed the world's civilian population," an exhibition organizer and the chairman of the Our Ossetia inter-ethnic society, Vyacheslav Lagkuyev, told Interfax on Thursday.
The museum's exhibits are dedicated to several themes, including the Vietnam War and the bombardments of Serbia in 1999, he said.
Other groups of items deal with the wars in Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the 2008 operation in Georgia.
This exhibition will be permanent and will continue to grow, Lagkuyev said.
"This is Russia's one-and-only museum dedicated to these issues, and people from many regions of the country have asked the exhibition organizations to add their own material evidence of NATO soldiers' atrocities to it," he said.
Admittance to the museum is restricted to people 16 years of age or older.